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    Default QR code link

    One of my clients wants to have a QR code on the menu that is linked to a Youtube video that is in a placeholder on their Videos page on the website.
    I've done "straight" QR links before when it points directly to a certain web page but don't know how to go about this. Obviously I could link directly to the video on You tube, but I want the visitor to watch the video "inside" the website.
    The Videos page would be: www.34south.biz/galleries/videos.htm

    This is QR code generator I use
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    Default Re: QR code link

    The whole thing here seems convoluted. If you scan a QR code with your phone from your monitor or laptop, then you will go to the link on your phone. Right? And that is the purpose of a QR code.

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    Default Re: QR code link

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    The whole thing here seems convoluted. If you scan a QR code with your phone from your monitor or laptop, then you will go to the link on your phone. Right? And that is the purpose of a QR code.
    Thanks for the reply.
    It's a physical printed menu on the restaurant table - client wants a customer to be able to scan the QR code which would then take him to the video on the client's website

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    Info Re: QR code link

    Relatively simple. You select each video and add an Anchor (Utilities > Names).
    You add the Anchor to the end of the URL for the QR-Code.

    So I add an Anchor of "2020" to the top-left movie.
    The URL needed is http://www.34south.biz/videos.htm#2020.
    On activating the QR-Code the browser jumps to that video.

    If you are more adroit, you add in the id="Anchor" into the Placeholder code.
    The trick this allows is if you write JavaScript code to detect when the id is selected, you could force an autoplay on the poor punter.

    Oh, and the URL you supplied was wrong.

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    Default Re: QR code link

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    Relatively simple. You select each video and add an Anchor (Utilities > Names).
    You add the Anchor to the end of the URL for the QR-Code.

    So I add an Anchor of "2020" to the top-left movie.
    The URL needed is http://www.34south.biz/videos.htm#2020.
    On activating the QR-Code the browser jumps to that video.

    If you are more adroit, you add in the id="Anchor" into the Placeholder code.
    The trick this allows is if you write JavaScript code to detect when the id is selected, you could force an autoplay on the poor punter.

    Oh, and the URL you supplied was wrong.

    Acorn
    Aaahh...yes!
    Many thanks Acorn for all your help with my problems - appreciated

 

 

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